The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy
What is Social stratification?
An elite and largely self-sustaining group who possess most of the country’s wealth; they constitute about 1 percent of the U.S. population
What is Upper class?
A system of social stratification based on a hereditary nobility who were responsible for and served by a lower stratum of forced laborers called serfs
What is Feudal system?
The tendency to choose romantic partners who are similar to us in terms of class, race, education, religion, and other social group membership
What is Homogamy?
The movement of individuals or groups within the hierarchical system of social classes
What is Social mobility?
A grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories
What is Social class?
The stock of assets held by a person or household at a single point in time
What is wealth?
Stratification is necessary to induce people with special intelligence, knowledge, and skills to enter the most important occupations. For this reason, stratification is necessary and inevitable
What is Structural functionalism and Social stratification?
The action of marrying or forming a sexual relationship with a person of a superior sociological or educational background
What is Hypergamy?
The mobility of the individual or group in the same social class, in the same situation category, without changing the level of power or status
What is Horizontal social mobility?
A measure of one's combined economic and social status
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
People who spend 27 weeks or more in a year in the labor force either working or looking for work but whose incomes fall below the poverty level
What is Working poor?
Stratification affects people’s beliefs, lifestyles, daily interaction, and conceptions of themselves
What is Symbolic interactionism and Social stratification?
The seeking of a spouse of lower socioeconomic status or caste than oneself
What is Hypogamy?
A change in the occupational, political, or religious status of a person that causes a change in their societal position
What is Vertical social mobility?
The interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
What is Intersectionality?
A situation in which an individual’s varied social positions can have both positive and negative influences on his or her social status
What is Status inconsistency?
Social stratification is created by people's differing relationship to the means of production: either they own productive property or they labor for others
What is Marx and Social Stratification?
Sexual reproduction involving fusion of unlike gametes often differing in size, structure, and physiology
What is Heterogamy?
A system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit
What is meritocracy?
Differential access to and use of resources across various domains
What is Social inequality?
Constituting the class of salaried employees whose duties do not call for the wearing of work clothes or protective clothing
What is White collar?
Stratification is an organized manifestation of unequal power in society separated into three spheres of activity for analytical purposes: economic, social and political, and, within each sphere, power is designed according to class, status and party
What is Weberian Theory?
More susceptible to less healthcare, education, work and income, relationship and criminal justice
What is people with lower socioeconomic statuses?
Pertains to a person's capacity to alter their station relative to the economic status of their parents or grandparents, essentially the flexibility within a society to allow individuals to grow regardless of their initial station
What is Intergenerational mobility?